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I am testing building an installation with a TestStand sample. I have administrator when I build the installation. This installation with create a folder under Program Files. When I ran the test which finally generate a report using default report generation, it cannot write the report into the installed folder. I check and it has read only permission. I am not sure how to enable the write permission automatically. Please help me with this.
In general, on the Windows OS, having a program write to the "program files" directory without requiring privilege escalation to the admin level is not recommended. That directory is intended to be a place where the programs themselves are stored and is not writable by default without admin level privileges for security reasons (to reduce the ability of malicious programs to modify installed programs). That said, you can change the file system permissions of a directory using the Windows file explorer (you will need to have administrator privileges to do so). Right click on the folder in Windows explorer and go to the security tab. See Microsoft's help pages for more information.
